On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:43:49 -0700 Claus Assmann <ca+openbsd_m...@esmtp.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010, Gregory Edigarov wrote: > > > Meta1, which is viewed by some as a "sendmail made right" is still > > in very deep pre-alpha state... what a pity. > > Despite being called "pre-alpha" MeTA1 runs without problems > for years at various sites. It's in pre-alpha to make my > life easier: I can make changes without offering backward > compatibility. While I try to avoid that, it reduces my > workload if those changes are deemed necessary (however, I > provided scripts/instructions for upgrading each time this > happened). > > Alternatively, I could just go through the release process to make > MeTA1-1.0.0 available and then start MeTA1-2.0.PreAlpha0, but I'm > not sure whether that's the right thing to do. > > Do quote the MeTA1 docs: > > PreAlpha: This means the software is not feature complete and hence > might be missing some functionality that is considered important > by different users. Additionally, there might be no compatibility > in data structures stored on disk between different pre-alpha > versions, e.g., when upgrading from PreAlpha16 to PreAlpha17 the > main queue format may have changed without checks in the software > for this. Hence old queues must be drained before upgrading. > Moreover, the protocols used for communication between MeTA1 modules > may have changed without providing backward compatibility, therefore > modules from different releases must not be used together. Such > incompatibilities are usually stated in the list of changes. Yeah, I got the point, thank you. -- With best regards, Gregory Edigarov